Cicely Tyson
Also Known As: Сисели Тайсон
Biography: Cicely Louise Tyson (December 19, 1924 – January 28, 2021) was an American actress. In a career which spanned more than seven decades in film, television and theatre, she became known for her portrayal of strong African-American women. Tyson received various awards including three Emmy Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Tony Award, an Honorary Academy Award, and a Peabody Award. Description above from the Wikipedia article Cicely Tyson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Birthday: December 19, 1924
Deathday: January 28, 2021
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Gender: Female
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Fried Green Tomatoes
Overview: Amidst her own personality crisis, southern housewife Evelyn Couch meets Ninny, an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who experienced hardships and love in Whistle Stop, Alabama in the 1920s.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-27
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The Women of Brewster Place
Overview: A multigenerational story of the lives of several black women who call an inner-city tenement home.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-19
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Hoodlum
Overview: In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running 'the numbers'. When Madam Queen—the powerful woman who runs the scam in Harlem—is arrested, Ellsworth 'Bumpy' Johnson takes over the business and must resist an invasion from a merciless mobster.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-08-27
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Overview: Singer is a deaf-mute whose small world brings him in contact with a young girl, Mick, who cherishes a seemingly hopeless dream of becoming a concert pianist. At first hostile, Mick soon becomes friends with Singer, hoping to enlarge his small world. Three other central characters come to Singer for help also, each of them seeing in him a powerful force.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-07-31
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Bustin' Loose
Overview: After ex-con Joe Braxton violates his probation, he is given a second chance. All he has to do is drive a group of special kids across the country.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-22
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Samaritan: The Mitch Snyder Story
Overview: Outraged by the treatment of New York City’s unhoused residents, an activist brings national attention to the issue by taking their case to Congress.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-05-19
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Odds Against Tomorrow
Overview: An old-time crook plans a heist. When one of his two partners is found out to be a black man tensions flare.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-15
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Always Outnumbered
Overview: An ex-con moves to L.A. to find work and creates a disturbance by fighting for a position. More importantly he touches the lives of many of his neighbors including an older man dying of cancer, a young married couple whose husband is too proud to accept a lesser position which causes strife with his wife, and a young boy on the verge of getting in trouble with street gangs.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-21
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Idlewild
Overview: A reticent piano player Percival, along with Rooster, his flamboyant lead performer and manager, struggle to keep their speakeasy, in the Prohibition-era South, out of the hands of gangsters who want to take it over.
Genres: Crime Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-08-25
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Why Did I Get Married Too?
Overview: Four couples reunite for their annual vacation in order to socialize and to spend time analyzing their marriages. Their intimate week in the Bahamas is disrupted by the arrival of an ex-husband determined to win back his recently remarried wife.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-04-02
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The Concorde... Airport '79
Overview: Aviation disaster-prone Joe Patroni must contend with nuclear missiles, the French Air Force and the threat of the plane splitting in two over the Alps.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-17
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Sounder
Overview: The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-09-24
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Madea's Family Reunion
Overview: Southern matriarch Madea has a lot on her plate. Her nieces, Vanessa and Lisa, have relationship troubles - Vanessa moves into Madea's house with her 2 young children and Lisa is engaged to a controlling man that her mother set her up with. In addition, Madea has just been court-ordered to become the guardian of Nikki, a rebellious runaway teenager. Madea must keep the peace and her family together while simultaneously planning her clan's reunion.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-02-24
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Because of Winn-Dixie
Overview: A girl, abandoned by her mother when she was three, moves to a small town in Florida with her father. There, she adopts an orphaned dog she names Winn-Dixie. The bond between the girl and her special companion brings together the people in a small Florida town and heals her own troubled relationship with her father.
Genres: Family Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-02-18
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The Help
Overview: Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers despite her family's struggles with money and her desperate need for jobs; and Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan is a young white woman who has recently moved back home after graduating college to find out her childhood maid has mysteriously disappeared. These three stories intertwine to explain how life in Jackson, Mississippi revolves around "the help"; yet they are always kept at a certain distance because of racial lines.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-08-09
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A Lesson Before Dying
Overview: In the 1940s South, an African-American man is wrongly accused of the killing a a white store owner. In his defense, his white attorney equates him with a lowly hog, to indicate that he didn't have the sense to know what he was doing. Nevertheless convicted, he is sentenced to die, but his godmother and the aunt of the local schoolteacher convince school teacher go to the convicted man's cell each day to try to reaffirm to him that he is not an animal but a man with dignity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-05-22
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The River Niger
Overview: An intimate look at life in the ghetto: Johnny Williams is a house painter who moonlights as a poet, struggling to financially and emotionally support his cancer-ridden wife Mattie. But times are tough and the poverty-troubled streets are even tougher, and it takes every ounce of Johnny's love and courage for the couple to make it through their strife, finding redemption in the River Niger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-14
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Overview: In February, 1962, as the civil rights movement reaches Bayonne, Louisiana, a New York journalist arrives to interview Jane Pittman, who has just turned 110. She tells him her story dating back to her earliest memories before slavery ended. In between the chapters of her life, the present-day struggles of Blacks in Bayonne, urged on by Jimmy, are dramatized.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-31
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Alex Cross
Overview: Alex Cross, a genius homicide detective/psychologist is trying to clean up the mean streets of Detroit while keeping his family out of the line of fire. As he mulls over accepting a job with the FBI, he is told that a friend has been murdered and he vows to track down the killer. Soon, he and his team are forced to match wits with a psychotic contract killer, who displays a disturbing commitment towards seeing his job through.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-18
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The Blue Bird
Overview: Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the fairy Berylune. On their journey, they're accompanied by the anthropomorphized presences of a Dog, a Cat, Light, Fire, and Bread, among other entities.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-30
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A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich
Overview: A troubled boy becomes addicted to heroin, and his mother and foster father help him fight it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-14
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The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia
Overview: A young family moves into a historic home in Georgia, only to learn they are not the house's only inhabitants. Soon they find themselves in the presence of a secret rising from underground and threatening to bring down anyone in its path.
Genres: Horror Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-02-01
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A Morning For Jimmy
Overview: Tells the story of an African American youth named Jimmy who encounters racial discrimination in his search for employment. Although the boy's father tries to persuade his son to accept the reality of racial inequality as a fact of life, others encourage Jimmy to pursue his dream of becoming an architect. Jimmy's teacher introduces him to several African Americans in skilled professions, inspiring Jimmy to continue to strive to achieve his goals. This film was sponsored by the National Urban League and produced in conjunction with its Tomorrow's Scientists and Technicians (TST) program.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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Ms. Scrooge
Overview: Television movie updating Charles Dickens' story, "A Christmas Carol." Businesswoman Ebenita Scrooge treats her employees and customers poorly. She has no time for Christmas or the holiday spirit. On Christmas Eve, she is visited by the ghost of her dead partner Maude Marley and then by other spirits who remind her of her happy past and chronicle the bitterness and greed that have taken over her life. At last, she is shown her own death and funeral. No one is there to mourn her. This revelation shocks her into opening her heart and her checkbook.
Genres: Drama Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-12-10
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Jewel
Overview: In the 1940s a 40-year-old woman with five healthy children gives birth to a girl with Down's syndrome.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-02-07
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The Marva Collins Story
Overview: Cicely Tyson was Emmy-nominated as Outstanding Actress for her portrait of a Chicago schoolteacher whose remarkable achievements with black children labelled "unteachable" were spotlighted in a 1979 "60 Minutes" segment about how she became disillusioned with the traditional school system and decided to work outside of it, transforming her students into young scholars through her unique teaching style.
Genres: Drama TV Movie History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-12-01
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The Road to Galveston
Overview: Jordan Roosevelt, at 65, found herself alone, destitute, and depressed. Up against the wall, she took heart from the suggestion of a friend, a blind woman who was a nurse: enter a foster care program in which one takes care of patients in their own home. The patients she cares for are Alzheimers sufferers, and she shares her home with three other women in advanced stages of the disease, one (Gayle) wheelchair bound. And with these women, Jordan realizes a lifelong dream - to feel the ocean breeze. An accidental find of a coffee can stash of cash, buried by her late husband, makes the trip possible. Based on the true story of Peggy Lee of Camilla, Texas (the Alzheimers, the patients, and the foster care program are actual, the trip to the Galveston beaches is fictional).
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-01-24
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A Man Called Adam
Overview: A famous jazz trumpeter finds himself unable to cope with the problems of everyday life.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-03-16
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The Trip to Bountiful
Overview: Carrie Watts begrudgingly lives with her busy, overprotective son, Ludie and pretentious daughter-in-law, Jessie Mae. No longer able to drive and forbidden to travel alone, she wishes for freedom from the confines of the house.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-03-08
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Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
Overview: Lucy married at the turn of the last century, when she was fifteen and her husband was fifty. If Colonel William Marsden was a veteran of the "War for Southern Independence", Lucy became a "veteran of the veteran" with a unique perspective on Southern history and Southern manhood. Her story encompasses everything from the tragic death of a Confederate boy soldier to the feisty narrator's daily battles in the Home--complete with visits from a mohawk-coiffed candy-striper.
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-01
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The Comedians
Overview: American and British tourists get caught up in political unrest in Haiti.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-10-31
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Heat Wave
Overview: A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the bloody summer of 1965.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-13
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Free to Be… You and Me
Overview: Free to Be…You and Me, a project of the Ms. Foundation for Women, is a record album, and illustrated book first released in November 1972, featuring songs and stories from many current celebrities of the day (credited as "Marlo Thomas and Friends") such as Alan Alda, Rosey Grier, Cicely Tyson, Carol Channing, Michael Jackson, and Diana Ross, among others. An ABC Afterschool Special using poetry, songs, and sketches, followed two years later in March 1974. The basic concept is to encourage a post-60's gender neutrality, while saluting values such as individuality, tolerance, and happiness with one's identity. A major thematic message is that anyone, whether a boy or a girl, can achieve anything.
Genres: Animation Family TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-11
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The Kid Who Loved Christmas
Overview: In this sentimental holiday tale, a young boy is taken away from his loving, adoptive household when his new mom is killed in an auto accident and his traveling musician dad is deemed unfit to care for him, being on the road too much. Now, the only thing that can help is if a cold, bureaucratic adoption agency caseworker sees the error of her ways and allows them to be together.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-14
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Wilma
Overview: The story of American track sprinter Wilma Rudolph, who overcame physical handicaps to win three gold medals in the 1960 Olympics.
Genres: Drama TV Movie History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-19
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Showing Roots
Overview: Set in the year 1977, two women look to integrate their small town, inspired by the miniseries "Roots" as it hits the airwaves.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-04-23
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Acceptable Risks
Overview: The manager of a chemical plant and a city manager rise up against their respective bosses to keep a town safe in this ecologically conscientious made-for-TV disaster film. It all begins when the owners of Citichem order the plant manager to enact dangerous cost cuts that compromise the safety of the plant. He protests, but it is to no avail and a worker dies. At the same time, the city manager tries to warn the people that a deadly disaster is imminent, but he ends up gagged by the local politicians. Meanwhile, just when the community is at its most unprepared, a melt-down occurs and the town is drenched in deadly chemicals.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-03-02
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Relative Stranger
Overview: After the death of his father, a former football star reunites with the family that he abandoned years earlier.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-03-14
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The Last Angry Man
Overview: Dr. Sam Abelman is a Jewish doctor contentedly spending his autumn years serving his own Brooklyn neighborhood. But when his nephew, would-be journalist Myron, writes an article about him, it draws the attention of a producer, Woodrow Thrasher, who believes Dr. Abelman a good candidate for a TV show. The doctor, however, is suspicious of the whole enterprise, thinking both Myron and Thrasher are simply out to make a fast buck.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-22
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Marriage: Year One
Overview: A medical student marries a millionaire's daughter but insists they live on the money he earns.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-15
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Diary of a Mad Black Woman
Overview: Charles, an attorney, and Helen, his devoted wife, seem to have everything – money, a beautiful mansion – the American Dream. However, as Helen prepares to celebrate their 18th wedding anniversary, her life takes an unexpected twist when she comes home to find her clothes packed up in a U-Haul van parked in the driveway. Charles is divorcing her and kicks her out. Helen moves in with her grandmother Madea, an old woman who doesn't take any lip from anyone. Madea helps Helen through these tough times by showing her what is really important in life. Helen is forced to rediscover love, life, and religion in her pursuit for happiness.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-02-25
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Duplicates
Overview: A family falls victim to a scientific institute that removes memories and transfers them to a computer.
Genres: Drama Mystery Science Fiction Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-18
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Playing with Fire
Overview: Gary Coleman stars as a teenage arsonist. The authorities, friends, and neighbors warn his absentee parents until it is too late.
Genres: TV Movie Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-04-13
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Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
Overview: A celebration of Dr. Maya Angelou by weaving her words with rare and intimate archival photographs and videos, which paint hidden moments of her exuberant life during some of America’s most defining civil rights moments. From her upbringing in the Depression-era South to her swinging soirees with Malcolm X in Ghana to her inaugural speech for President Bill Clinton, we are given special access to interviews with Dr. Angelou whose indelible charm and quick wit make it easy to love her.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-14
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Intimate Encounters
Overview: It started as fantasy...and ended as intimate encounters.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-28
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Last Flag Flying
Overview: Thirty years after serving together in the Vietnam War, Larry, Sal and Richard, reunite for a different type of mission: to bury Doc's son, a young Marine killed in Iraq. Forgoing the burial, the trio take the casket on a bittersweet trip up the coast to New Hampshire - along the way, reminiscing and coming to terms with the shared memories of a war that continues to shape their lives.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-11-03
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Fat Rose and Squeaky
Overview: The Irish-willed eighty-year-old Bonnie Ash Fitzpatrick and her only friend in life, seventy-year-old Celine Snow disagree on just about everything. When Bonnie's long-lost niece, Christine, attempts to trick her out of her house, the two friends come up with a plan. Using Bonnie's association with the wacko neighbors (Fat Rose & Squeaky) as examples of her inability to safely care for herself, Christine's plan appears to be working. The friendship between Bonnie and Celine proves to be a greater challenge to Christine than her aunt's age.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-08-11
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The Women of Brewster Place
Overview: A multigenerational story of the lives of several black women who call an inner-city tenement home.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-19
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Blessed Assurance
Overview: Upon his discharge following the Korean War, soldier Jerry moves back to the small town in South Carolina where he grew up. Jerry is reunited with his old flame Leslie, gets a job as an insurance salesman and begins to heal from the emotional damage caused by the war. But Jerry faces a serious moral dilemma when the job he depends on for his livelihood leads him to take advantage of an elderly African-American woman and the members of her community.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-08-17
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The Rosa Parks Story
Overview: A seamstress recalls events leading to her act of peaceful defiance that prompted the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-24
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Neighbors
Overview: Racial tensions come out of the woodwork when an upper-class white couple puts their suburban home on the market and the listing draws a pair of equally well-to-do African American buyers from Harlem. Fielder Cook directs this Broadway staging of playwright Arkady Leokum's exploration of lingering racial prejudice in 1970s America.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-18
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And the Oscar Goes To...
Overview: The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy itself, which began in 1927 when Louis B. Mayer, then head of MGM, led other prominent members of the industry in forming this professional honorary organization. Two years later the Academy began bestowing awards, which were nicknamed "Oscar," and quickly came to represent the pinnacle of cinematic achievement.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-02-01
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Just an Old Sweet Song
Overview: Upon learning that their grandmother is not long for this world, Nate and Priscilla Simmons pack up their kids and leave Detroit to head down South. Eventually, the family rediscovers its African-American roots and elects to stay in their new rural surroundings.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-09-25
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Carib Gold
Overview: The hard-working but struggling crew of a shrimp boat discover a sunken treasure. Trouble ensues in this dramatic black-cast production.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-30
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A Fall from Grace
Overview: When a law-abiding woman gets indicted for murdering her husband, her lawyer soon realizes that a larger conspiracy may be at work.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-01-17
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House of Secrets
Overview: Marion Ravinel is trapped in an abusive spousal relationship. She forms a plan with her husband's former lover to kill him. However, the outcome turns out to be more than she planned on as she begins to believe that her husband has come back from the dead to get her.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-31
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To Be Young, Gifted and Black: The World of Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words
Overview: Excerpts from the 1969 Off-Broadway production at the Cherry Lane Theater of To Be Young, Gifted and Black: The World of Lorraine Hansberry, adapted by Robert Nemiroff, Hansberry's widower, and directed by Gene Frankel.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-02
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Benny's Place
Overview: Time begins to catches up to a tough factory worker who is feeling threatened by younger men at work and at play.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-05-31
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How It Feels to Be Free
Overview: Tells the inspiring story of how six iconic African American female entertainers – Lena Horne, Abbey Lincoln, Nina Simone, Diahann Carroll, Cicely Tyson and Pam Grier – challenged an entertainment industry deeply complicit in perpetuating racist stereotypes, and transformed themselves and their audiences in the process.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-01-18
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The Other Boys of Summer
Overview: The story of racism, segregation and Civil Rights in America told through the lives of the Negro League baseball players. Features exclusive interviews with the men who played alongside of Jackie Robinson.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-06-19
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Night of 100 Stars
Overview: The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City Music Hall. The event, for which ticket-buyers paid up to $1,000 a seat (tax-deductible as a contribution to the Actors' Fund) was billed as "The Night of 100 Stars" but, actually, around 230 stars took part. And most of the audience of 5,800 had no idea in advance that they were paying to see a TV taping, complete with long waits for set and costume changes, tape rewinding, and the like. Executive producer Alexander Cohen estimated that the 5,800 Radio City Music Hall seats sold out at prices ranging from $25 to $1,000. The show itself cost about $4 million to produce and was expected to yield around $2 million for the new addition to the Actors Fund retirement home in Englewood, N. J. ABC is reputed to have paid more than $5 million for the television rights.
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-03-08
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